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ENGLISH 101: ENGLISH COMPOSITION I Syllabus, Summer Quarter
2015
Cara N. Stoddard | [email protected] Office # 1618 | Classroom
# 1607 | 10:15AM-12:15PM
Summer Office Hours: by appointment only
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is an introduction to
college-level reading and writing and is designed to improve your
critical thinking, reading, and written communication skills. In
this course you will learn strategies for critical reading and
analysis, drafting and revising essays, performing academic
research, and properly attributing your sources using MLA
citation.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of the course, you should be very
good at doing the following:
1. Comprehending college-level and professional prose and
analyzing how authors present their ideas in view of their probable
purposes, audiences, and occasions.
2. Presenting your ideas as related to, but clearly
distinguished from, the ideas of others (including the ability to
paraphrase, summarize, and correctly cite and document borrowed
material).
3. Identifying rhetorical appeals in texts and advertisements
and assessing their effect on an intended audience. 4. Developing a
central claim (thesis) that follows one of the four ways to
respond:
Agreeing with the thesis of the orig. text, but with a
difference (adding something new)
Disagreeing based on factual merit (by poking holes in the
support used in orig. text)
Disagreeing because of holes in the orig. argument (and adding
neglected info)
Taking a middle ground by agreeing and disagreeing
simultaneously, favoring one or the other 5.
Supporting/illustrating your central claim (thesis) clearly and
logically. 6. Gathering and evaluating information using the
library resources and using your sources in service of
persuading
your audience. 7. Using a variety of strategies during the
prewriting or invention process including making a formal outline
and
using a Research Log. 8. Revising holistically in an attempt to
re-see how to best achieve what it is you are trying to communicate
to an
audience in any given assignment. 9. Accurately proofreading
your own work in order to produce writing that maintains the
conventions of published
English. 10. Giving and receiving constructive feedback during
peer review.
Of course, I expect that you are able to carry out some of these
tasks already.
TEXTBOOK: They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic
Writing, Third Edition
by: Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein | ISBN #
9780393935844
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DEADLINES FOR MAJOR WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:
Note: Unless otherwise noted, all essays are due by 10:15AM on
the day listed. Monday, July 6 LAST DAY TO ADD A CLASS Monday, July
6 1st Draft Essay 1Selma Movie Critique (Print copy) Tuesday, July
7 Final Draft Essay 1Selma Movie Critique (Submit on Canvas)
Monday, July 13 1st Draft Essay 2Summarizing & Paraphrasing
(Print copy) Tuesday, July 14 Final Draft Essay 2Summarizing &
Paraphrasing (Submit on Canvas) Monday, July 20 1st Draft Essay
3Agree Argument (Print Copy) Tuesday, July 21 Final Draft Essay
3Agree Argument (Submit on Canvas) Tuesday, August 4 LAST DAY TO
DROP A CLASS Thursday, August 6 1st Draft Essay 4Disagree Argument
(Print Copy) Thursday, August 6 Final Draft Essay 4Disagree
Argument (Submit on Canvas by midnight) Wednesday, August 12
Revision of Essay 3 or Essay 4Capstone (Submit on Canvas)
ATTENDANCE: Attendance in English 101 is mandatory and a
significant determining factor of your grade. Since the summer
quarter is so much shorter than during the regular school year, we
have doubled the in-class time per day from one hour to two hours.
So, for the sake of getting the most out of this class as possible,
I encourage you to come to class every day, even if you can only
make it to part of class or if you come late for the second half or
have to leave early. I count each hour of class as a an absence. If
you miss more than two classesor four hoursof class, your grade
will be dropped by 10%. Missing four classesor eight hoursof class
is grounds for failing the class.
Thus, plan for unforeseen illnesses or travel plans later in the
summer. Only absences for bereavement, hospitalization, or
previously scheduled college Sponsored Events or Activities (see
Student Handbook for definition) are considered excused absences.
Whenever possible, please notify me before the excused absence to
be sure to get any handouts you might miss in class. Every other
kind of absence including car trouble, illnesses and doctors
appointments, and being called into cover a co-workers shift at
work is considered unexcused and counts toward your two allowed
absences.
In the case of a personal or family emergency, please be in
contact with me via email about the situation, and I will do my
best to accommodate you. In the case of bereavement leave or a
mental/physical health emergency for you or one of your dependents
requiring you miss more than one day in a row, you will be expected
to keep up with your coursework via Canvas. Arrangements will be
made on a case-by-case basis.
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Being in attendance means being physically present, awake,
coherent, and fully prepared for class with the readings and
homework completed. If you do not meet all of these conditions you
will be marked absent for the day. Coming in more than 15 minutes
late or leaving more than 15 minutes early will result in being
marked absent for one hour of the two-hour class (or a of your 2
allowed absences). Inappropriate use of cell phones, laptops, or
tablets in class will result in an unexcused absence. You are
responsible for making up all of the work that you missed during an
absence. Please see me during office hours or schedule an
appointment before the next scheduled class.
COURSE TRAJECTORY:
First hour of class Second hour of class
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k 1
Wed July 1Introductions, Syllabus, Course Policies Thurs July
2Selma (cont.)
Wed July 1begin watching Selma Thurs July 2Rotten Tomatoes
critiques, begin work on Essay 1 (1801)
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k 2
Mon July 6Peer Review Tue July 7listen to and discuss Obamas
Selma speech Wed July 8Paraphrase Tips and Tricks Thurs July 9Quote
Sandwiches
Mon July 6Shelby County v. Holder (1801) Tue July 7Annotate
Obamas Selma speech (1801) Wed July 8Paraphrase Practice Thurs July
9Intro PIE, Quote Sandwich Practice (1801)
Wee
k 3
Mon July 13Peer Review Tue July 14This American Life Cops See It
Differently Pt. I Wed July 15TAL Cops See It Differently Pt. 2
Thurs July 16Topic Sentence Review (Claims)
Mon July 13Watch & Annotate James Comeys speech (1801) Tue
July 14Research Eric Garner (1801) Wed July 15Research Michael
Brown (1801) Thurs July 16work on Essay 3 (1801)
Wee
k 4
Mon July 20Peer Review Tue July 21On Point with Tom Ashbrook re:
Baltimore Wed July 22DeVega & Haleem close reading Thurs July
23Socratic Seminar
Mon July 20Using the Known-New Contract to Transition Tue July
21Research Freddie Gray & Balt. Protests (1801) Wed July
22Webber v. Blackwell & Schwarzwalder articles Thurs July
23Socratic Seminar
Wee
k 5
Mon July 27Counterarguments & Rebuttals Tue July 28Database
Intro, Opposing Viewpoints (1801) Wed July 29Workshop
Counterargument/Rebuttal Thurs July 30POC or Thug: the Medias
Rhetoric
Mon July 27Library Database Intro, Proquest (1801) Tue July
28Research Time Cont. (1801) Wed July 29POC or Thug: the Medias
Rhetoric (1801) Thurs July 30Project Implicit (1801)
Wee
k 6
Mon Aug 3Workshop Intro paragraph Tue Aug 4Workshop Body Para. 1
& 2 Wed Aug 5Workshop Conclusion Thurs Aug 6Peer Review
Mon Aug 3TAL Is This Working Tues Aug 4close reading of Claudia
Rankine Citizen excerpt Wed Aug 5close reading of Blindspot excerpt
Thurs Aug 6work on Essay 4 (1801) **TURN IN Essay 4 ON CANVAS by
midnight Thurs.
Wee
k 7
Mon Aug 10Group Presentations Tue Aug 11Optional Class:
Conferences/Work Time (1801) Wed Aug 12Re-visit Essay 1 (1801)
Mon Aug 10Group Presentations Tue Aug 11Optional Class:
Conferences/Work Time (1801) Wed Aug 12Reflection Letter
COURSE ETIQUETTE: Classroom citizenship. The classroom is a
learning community. Any behavior that disrupts this community will
not be tolerated. This includes speaking to other students while I
am talking, sleeping in class, passing notes, being rude or
belligerent to me or other students, etc. This is a
discussion-based course, and I expect you to treat each other with
dignity and respect. We will be discussing sensitive topics and
reading each others personal writing in this course. Please be
considerate of others ideas and beliefs and do not discuss the
content of others papers with students outside of this class. In
accordance with Big Bends Discrimination Policy, disrespect or
discrimination towards students based on race, color, national
origin, ethnicity, citizen status, sex, disability, sexual
orientation, gender identity, veteran status,
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age, or religion will not be tolerated. If you feel your
well-being is being jeopardized or you have observed someone else
being treated disrespectfully, please come speak to me about it
privately after class or during my office hours. Readings. In
accordance with Big Bends mission statement to encourage
multiculturalism, this class has been intentionally designed to
include readings that represent a diverse set of cultures and
peoples and express points of view on controversial contemporary
social and political issues. In this class we may discuss, read,
write about, or view texts that you disagree with or find
offensive. Such texts are not necessarily condoned, but rather used
to prompt discussion and explore ideas that may be outside of our
individual preferences and comfort levels. In this college
classroom you are required to engage maturely and academically with
all texts, regardless of their content or rating. Please email or
see me privately during office hours if you have any questions
about this policy.
Technology. In order to promote habits and skill-sets unique to
scholars of the 21st century, this course has a heavy emphasis on
the use of technology. You will be expected to check our Canvas
page every day for a detailed description of the homework, and you
will be submitting your homework and essays on Canvas and receiving
important margin notes and feedback on your writing from your
instructor on Canvas. It is my expectation that you purchase and
use Microsoft Word for all typed assignments in this class. If you
cannot get Word on your personal or home computer, you will need to
schedule at least an additional hour per day and several hours over
the weekends to spend on campus using the computers in the library.
Having said that, more often than not, during class time,
technological devices serve as distractions to you and the people
around you, so please silence and put away your phones at the start
of class. There will certainly be exceptions to this rule, when I
will allow you, even encourage you, to use your smart phone or
device in class, but I will notify you when it is appropriate to
take out your phone. Texting, taking calls, and checking the time
on your cell phone is not permitted in class. Any use of technology
in class, including receiving audible texts or calls, will result
in an unexcused absence for that day.
LATE WORK: Homework and essays are due at the beginning of
class. I do not accept late homework or Canvas quizzes. You will
receive a zero on the assignment if you do not have it with you or
submitted on Canvas by the time class starts on the day it is due.
The one-time-only exception to this no late work policy is when
using your Stuff Happens coupon distributed on the first day of
class. This coupon allows you to turn in the assignment one class
period late; however, you still must complete the assignment in
order to get the points. You may only use this coupon once per
quarter, and it is only applicable on homework assignments and
Canvas quizzes (not on essay drafts).
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In the case of a late 1st Draft, you will receive a 0/10 on Peer
Review. A late final draft will be graded as follows:
Within 24 hours = 10% point reduction
2 days late = 20% reduction
3 or more days late = 30% reduction
Note: Because of the extensive and time-consuming nature of the
comments I make on each student essay I read, I usually take 1 full
week (4 class periods) to grade and return essays. Thank you in
advance for your patience. If you have questions on a draft while
you wait for formal feedback, dont hesitate to come by my office
during office hours (or email me a time) and we can look through
your essay together.
PLAGIARISM: I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt and
assume that you will do honest work and that you will work with me
on improving writing that is your own. But plagiarism is a serious
matter, and incidents of it have been on the rise both at Big Bend
and nationally. So I feel that it is important to explain what the
consequences are. The two basic kinds of plagiarism:
1. Malicious or intentional. This is the most serious kind of
academic theft. It involves presenting someone elses work as your
own, directly copying from a source without using quotation marks
or citations, rephrasing and summarizing without citations, or
re-submitting your own work from a different quarter or different
course.
2. Plagia-phrasing or mosaic plagiarism. This is when you use
quotation marks around large chunks of text from a source that you
wanted to quote or when you use a paraphrase that has too many of
the same words as the original text. Even if you cite these texts
as a general sources at the end of the essay in a Works Cited, this
is still considered plagiarism because, in the act of trying to use
a quote sandwich or re-word the passage into your own words, you
ended up relying too heavily on someone elses ideas and wording.
This kind of plagiarism also involves integrating source material
(as a quote or paraphrase) without citing your source in the
sentences / paragraphs themselves (in other words you are missing
the in-text citation). Even if several different sources were
copied or combined, it is still plagiarism.
The consequences of plagiarism: If any essay or homework
assignment involves plagiarism of the first kind (malicious or
intentional) you will receive a 0 on that assignment and will not
be allowed to re-do the assignment for a better grade. If an essay
involves plagiarism of the second kind (mosaic plagiarism with
missing in-text citations) you will be required to come to set up
an appointment outside of class time to work on accurately
summarizing and using in-text citations. Then you will have 24
hours from this meeting to rewrite and re-submit the paper using
correct forms of documentation in order to receive creditI will
regrade the essay with a 10% deduction for it being late.
Additionally, if any of your writing over the course of this
quarter involves plagiarism of the first kind (malicious or
intentional), I am empowered by the Student Code of Conduct to
assign a grade of F for the course, a penalty that may
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be imposed in particularly serious cases and I will also make a
complaint to the Vice President of Student Services, who is
responsible for enforcing the regulations in the Student Code of
Conduct. So, in addition to the academic penalty of receiving an F
in the course, you may also be subject to other disciplinary
penalties, which can include suspension or expulsion. Although such
severe penalties are rarely imposed for first-time offenders, the
Vice President of Student Services Office maintains disciplinary
records as part of a students overall academic record. A final word
on plagiarism: I understand the occasional temptation to use
copy-pastebut I am surprisingly good at recognizing plagiarism. My
basic message is Do Not Do It. When you need to take something from
another persons workan idea, a powerful statement, a set of facts,
or an explanationcite your source.
GRADING: The majority of the points for this course come from
daily assignments and participation, so be sure to keep up with the
daily readings and homeworks. Simply turning in final papers will
not result in a passing grade in this class. Your percentage in the
class is based out of 515 points (subject to change). You must turn
in all 4 essays and receive at least 307 points to pass this class.
In order to receive a 2.0 (the grade required for this course to
transfer to most 4-year colleges), you will have to receive a
minimum of 374 points. The points are distributed as follows:
Unit 1Selma Critique (50) Selma Background Info (10) Essay 1
Peer Review (10) TSIS Intro + Ch. 1 Quiz (10) Essay 1 Final Draft
(15) In the News DB (5)
Unit 2Paraphrasing & Quoting (110) Shelby Co. v. Holder
Notes (10) Obama Speech Annotations (10) TSIS Ch. 2 Quiz (10) TSIS
Ch. 3 Quiz (10) Essay 2 Peer Review (10) Essay 2 Final Draft (50)
In the News DB (5) Blue Books (5)
Unit 3Agree Argument (185) TAL Cops Pt. 1 Notes (10) TAL Cops
Pt. 2 Notes (10) Comey Speech Annotations (10) Eric Garner Notes
(10) Michael Brown Notes (10) TSIS Ch. 4 Quiz (5) TSIS Ch. 6 Quiz
(10) Essay 3 Peer Review (10) Essay 3 Final Draft (50) In the News
DB (5) Blue Books (5) Midterm (50)
Unit 4Disagree Argument (170) On Point: Baltimore Notes (10)
Freddie Gray Notes (10) Socratic Seminar (5) Annotated Bibliography
(15) TAL Is This Working Notes (10) Citizen Notes (10) Blindspot
Notes (10) Essay 4 Peer Review (10) Essay 4 Final Draft (50)
Quality of Revision (10) In the News DB (5) PresentationOral (5)
PresentationWritten (10) Blue Books (5) Reflection Letter (5)
Grading Scale:
A Represents achievement that is outstanding or superior
relative to the level necessary to meet the requirements of the
course.
B Represents achievement that is significantly above the level
necessary to meet the requirements of the course.
Grades of A or B are honors grades. You must do something above
and beyond the min. requirements in order to earn an A or B.
C Represents achievement that meets the basic requirements in
every respect. It signifies that the work is average, but nothing
more.
D Represents achievement that meets some but not all of the
basic requirements. It signifies that a significant amount of
coursework is either missing or received not-passing grades.
F
If you receive less than 307 points in the course or fail to
hand in one of the 4 major writing assignments, you will
automatically earn an F. If your average grade is a D but you did
not complete one of the major components of the course (one of the
4 major papers), you will automatically earn an F in the course.
Accumulating more than eight absences also will result in an F.
There is no reason for receiving an F in this course unless you
simply fail to submit the required work.
I Stands for Incomplete. Under very unusual circumstances you
could be assigned an Incomplete in the course if something happened
to you within the last two weeks of the quarter that made it
impossible to complete the course
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Re-doing Final Drafts. I will allow you to re-submit Essays 1,
Essay 2, or Essay 3 again after the Final Draft due date if you
turned the essay in on time and received a D or F (except in the
case of plagiarism), and I will average the two Final Draft grades.
All revised Final Drafts must be turned in on or before Wednesday,
August 12 by 12:15PM. A Note on Transferring. While any grade above
a .7 (60%) is considered passing at Big Bend, many programs and
colleges require a 2.0 or higher in order to transfer credits
earned in a class. In addition, students who fall below a 2.0 are
particularly likely to struggle in other classes that require
academic writing. Speak to your advisor or transfer colleges for
details about this issue.
RESOURCES: English Skills Lab: If you would like another reader
for any of your essays or if you would like help on an essay in
between your first and final drafts, you may schedule an
appointment with a tutor at the English Lab. The English Skills Lab
is Located the 1800 Building inside the Library, Room 1832.
Summer Quarter Hours: Monday - Wednesday....9:00am - 3:00pm
Thursday - Friday.............8:00am - 3:00pm
The English Skills Lab can help with all stages of the writing
process and all levels of writers, so it is not always necessary to
have a completed draft prepared in order to meet with a tutor.
Student Success Center: If you need to use a computer, to check out
a laptop, or if you are struggling in any of your classes, you can
sign up for peer mentoring or supplemental instruction, contact
Diana Villafana at 509.793.2369. The Student Success Center is
located in the 1400 Building and is open Mon-Thurs 8am-5pm and Fri
8am-2:30pm.
Accessibility & Disability Services: Big Bend Community
College is committed to providing accommodations in academic
programs to ensure maximum participation by all students with
disabilities and to minimize the functional limitations their
disabling condition has on their education. Proper procedures are
in place to obtain equal access wherein the student and college
staff work together to facilitate reasonable accommodations. The
Disabled Student Services Office is located in the 1400 Building.
Loralyn Allen is the disabled students liaison. Her office, located
inside the Counseling Center, is open Monday - Thursday from 8:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. To
schedule an appointment contact her at 509.793.2027.
For the hearing impaired TDD is available in the
Registration/Admissions Office for incoming and outgoing calls at
telephone number 509.762.6335.
(a serious accident or illness that left you hospitalized and
very significant personal tragedy, etc.)
A % = GPA
B % = GPA
C % = GPA
D % = GPA
95-100 = 4.0 94 = 3.8 92-93 = 3.7 91 = 3.6
89-90 = 3.5 87-88 = 3.4 86 = 3.3 85 = 3.2 84 = 3.1 83 = 3.0 82 =
2.9 81 = 2.8 80 = 2.7
79 = 2.6 78 = 2.5 77 = 2.4 76 = 2.3 75 = 2.2 74 = 2.1 73 = 2.0
----------transfer cut-off----------- 72 = 1.9 71 = 1.8 70 =
1.7
69 = 1.6 68 = 1.5 67 = 1.4 66 = 1.3 65 = 1.2 64 = 1.1 63 = 1.0
62 = 0.9 61 = 0.8 60 = 0.7